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H Three or four flannel ahawli, About H thlrtr Inches square and bound with H ribbon will be found very useful white H lha baby la young, tare Harper'a Ha- H ur Thoy are rasy to wrap around the H baby after a bath and when ready for 1 a nap Little aacka are alio needed M and ran be knitted In while with pink H and blue border, or be made of Scotch H outing flannel or cashmere Thea aaaaa ran be made on a ihort yoke, or can H banc straight from the neck and be H trimmed with a broad collar and tied BBBB with a tlbbon In front Two or three BBBB wrappers ran Imi altnpljr made prefer- BBBB abljr of Scotch flannel, either on a joke BBBB or with a cluster of tueka aeroaa the H front Three or four knitted blanket BBBB are necessary, and can be made of llgh: H pink blue or white White aa a rule. BBBB washes beat Tha long roat ran be B mad nf ellk cashmere, or any soft H while good! II ihould be lined with H a thin allk no a to allp on and off H Mil Mr and If n winter coat, lined H throughout with lamb'a wool It ean M be trimmed wllh a wide collar or n H round ahoulder eape If dealred A lit- H tie rap ihould go wllh the cont made H of the aame material and lined If for H winter but In nimmer the dainty little H muilln rape are the beat. H The baby'i baiket la a delightful lit- H tie article to plan about, and ran be H made In a variety of wan. The lone B low ahape li perhapa the moat con- H rentent It It la to be trimmed at j home tuck cotton batting on to the H aide, which hare been aprlnkled with H orrli powder, and then corrr with H wbateTer material la dealred Rote or lljht blue allk la a pretty foundation, H rotered with either a fine dotted mm- m lln of point d'eiprlt lace. The mtnlln H or lace thould be aewed on full, but tha H altk ean tie put on plain A flowered H ejlkolen ran be uard In plare of theae. M Tbla, of roune, ahould be put on full, H ai It doea not hate the tare orer It A H bit eatln bow at the aide or on the top H make a pretty flnlih In the tray are H kept the baby'a toilet article and In H the underneath part of the baiket the H baby'a clothe The tray ahould con- H tain a pin cuihlon on which are the H aaaorted ilxei of aafety pin. A little j rup-ihaped bax ran be made of rubber cloth rorared with whaterrr material H the baiket It trimmed with, and tewed H Into one corner of the tray for tha ba- H by'a ipone. which ihould b imill and H line A piece of sood loap In a little H dlik, a powder box and puff, a bottle H of vaillno. a imall box of borax, a H quarter of a pound roll of abaorbent H cotton a roll of old linen and a pair of HH "nail blunt-pointed actiior. Thmo lit- S tie Ihlnxi are ronitantly needed, and H ahould alwaya be on h 1 B lilldren'a Hoar Blaap. H One of the moat fruitful aourrra of H the lllneia of children I the habit H which aome parenti hare of allowlni H them to itay up unduly lal at nliht. H It I one of the arratrat mlttakea of BBH thoae who have rharge of them to lot B them have too little Bleep. 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Inherit- BBBM ed In many caeca from dripeptlc par- K enta are keenly allre to every sound, BjBBtj and their tempera are Irritated by be- jMBH log called otit ot bed when Uey are bo SH much luellned to Bleep During the BBBB earlier year ot childhood, whatever elt may be done, there ahould be am VH pie provlilon for long and undliturbed BkBB Carixtnal alainaa Twin. BBU London Telegraph Crowdi of people H from all parti ot Kent-many even BBBB traveling from Ixindon by train or ey- H ale vlillcd the qultt.remote and altepy BBBB vllligo ot Dlddenden, not fir from BBBB Tenderden, for the purpoie of celabrat- BBB log tha stmory of the Two Maldi ot ftfBB that ancient hamlet, who were tha B original preeuriori ot the Blimea BBBB (wlna. In lite they were Joined to gather by A myiterlout cord ot Beth, and ther died on the lira day, leaving their property to be diatrlbuted among the poor of the parish And Among all who eare to apply for a dole of bread and cheese on Baater day Hill benefaction bene-faction ha been In rxlaieace for alx or even eonturle and itpretwnt It value li about tWO a year Formerly the doles eonitttad of bread and cheese an I ale, but the latter produced ra much hilarity In the village that It was abolished, abol-ished, and the ebirlty li now llmltea to the two (lrit mentioned nutritive article ar-ticle The bread I made up In the form of eakee, bearing A rude representation repre-sentation of the Twin Matda of Did-rianden. Did-rianden. and are generally preserved ai curiosities by the recipients Tbey ore baked very bard, and are admirably adapted to site work to dentlsta by breaking the molars by thoae who at tempt to penetrate their mysteries The poor of the parish as dlitlngulihed from necnltou strangers ara supplied wllh ordlmry quartern loaves and chce. To Spink or lot la (n. A New York paper hs a department In It evening edition headed, "To Rpink or Not to Spank," and under that beading many wise and many worried mothers air their views, and seek for advice on the subject of the need ur good of spanking wayward children One woman writes "I have alwaya believed In spanking children who were obstreperous, but my Utile dauxhtrr, Minnie, aged 9, does not seem to mind Alio snya to her llltle brother, Harry aged C 'Oh, come along, Harry Mamma'll beat us, but that'll last only a few minutes, And we can do this for an hour ' What ran I do with a child who reasons In this fashion" In reply lo the Inquiring mother the paper answers "This letter shows that when It li a child that confronts us and not a theory It la well In study the child, and not to Insist too strongly upon the theory the-ory If thla smill dnmMl fears no spanking became she Is philosophic enough lo weigh Ita grief sting with the long enjoyment of her naughtiness, devise some long punishment for her Deprive her of her opportunities to en-Joy en-Joy life Keep her Indoors and at some task for a punishment" "Devise tor her aome long punishment." punish-ment." Poor thlngl ihe'd find long enough ono of the punishments devised devis-ed for mo when I was "obatreperoui" by my "Aunt Utile " who "brought mo up," and was a perfect grnlui for Inventing In-venting 'long" and. I now think, cruel punishment Pointing to an extra high chakr, from which my feet could not reach the floor, she would say, sternly "Kmlly. get up In that chair and shut your eyes and keep them ahut for ten minutes " It seema a alight punishment but oh a spinklng waa fun beside It. My eyea wouldn't be hut two minutes before It would seem that ten minutes and more had passed How the "long punishment" dragged, and long before It ended I reaolved that It would be long. Indeed, before I again gave "that womin " aa I used to man-tally man-tally call my exacting aunt, who was not my own aunt, but an uncle's wife. Another change to so torture me Hut Aunt Mule did not allow her puulih-raenta puulih-raenta to lose their terror by loo frequent fre-quent an Infliction Hhe had a large And exasperating variety and It was a long time between turns. She waa not really a cruel woman, and I was not A vety naughty child; yet the punishments were actually aa cruel as It I had been a wicked sprite and she a witch Many a good, Christian mother, In her eagerness to wisely correct her rhlldren tortures them, even aa did my puritanical guardian. guar-dian. I guess a good spanking, after all, Is the best, and It la the only punishment recommended by Holy Writ. Atmna.lirre uf l'Unala. Dr Johnson Btoney's name baa long been associated wllh a theory that uht composition of the atmosphere ot a planet, ani. Indeed, the question whether It ahall have an atmosphere or not, depends upon the site of the planet, plan-et, which determines the force of gravity grav-ity at Ita surface It la more partlculorly with a reference refer-ence to the moon that the thory has usually been presented Ht ripped of Its scientific phraseology. Dr Btoney's view Is that the gravitational force of the moon, hlch Is only about one-sixth one-sixth as great as the earth's. Is not strong enough to prevent the Indefinite expansion of auch gases as form the earth's atmosphere, and that come-quently come-quently If the moon evrr had a gaeous envelope these gaies were probably long ago dissipated In spac Water vapor upon the moon would be as truant tru-ant aa a gaa Hence the moon has lost, by evaporation Into spare. Ita sens as well aa Its atmosphere. The latest conclusions to which Dr. Btoney's Investigations In-vestigations BAve led him, and which are set forth very fully In the "Tran-actlom "Tran-actlom ot the Itoyal Hoclety of Dublin," Dub-lin," are thus tummed up by Nature III Chlldlali rr. The vaguenesa ot the young with re-spect re-spect to the ageot tbelr elders Is pleas, antly Illustrated by the early history ot a nobleman who once represented a division ot Manchester In the Hngllsh parliament HI mother had a maid ho seemed to childish eyes extremely old The children of the family longed to know her axe. but were much too well-bred to oik a question which they felt would be painful so thay Bought to attain the desired end by a system of Ingenious traps The boy chanced In a lucky hour to find In his "Rook of Useful Knowledge" the trsdttlon thit the Aloe flowers flowered only onee In A hundred years. He Instantly saw hla opportunity, and. accosting the maid, with winning air and wheedling accent, ac-cent, asked. Insinuatingly "Susan, hava you often teen the aloe flower?" |